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Learning group for capacity building providers
The aim of the learning group is to strengthen capacity building providers in sub-Saharan Africa to provide higher quality services in HIV/AIDS internal mainstreaming to CSOs. We are developing a small group of capacity building providers into an Africa-wide learning group which works through the following activities:
- Action learning and research: each year some of the learning group members will reflect and learn from their organisational experience in HIV workplace programmes (action learning) or undertake short action research projects (action research). These will be written up as Praxis notes and papers.
- Email contact and discussion
- Face-to-face meetings
Why should capacity building providers react?
Over the past three years INTRAC has produced publications on HIV/AIDS in the workplace that analyse the implications for capacity building providers. These highlight that capacity builders need to be aware of the issues and have the competencies to support clients in addressing HIV/AIDS mainstreaming in their external programmes and their internal organisation. Visit our resources database to download these publications.
Stories of impact
One of the publications tells a story of how Dorothy, one of CDRN's staff members, became sick and passed away. It is a story that is becoming all too familiar in Africa. We share it in the hope that the story of Dorothy’s death provokes you to realise that AIDS can happen to your organisation; that it help to be prepared; and yet however prepared you are, AIDS in the organisation is so painful and costly that it shakes you to the core and challenges your very values.
Counting the cost of HIV/AIDS to CSOs
Research undertaken in Malawi, Uganda and Tanzania in 2005 revealed that at least one staff member had died of AIDS in more than 60 per cent of responding CSOs. HIV/AIDS leads to rising medical, funeral and pension costs for CSOs — increasing staff bills by seven per cent and reducing productivity by ten per cent per year, according to research estimates. The report concludes that HIV costs development agencies considerably more money to do significantly less work.